The coffee table in the hall was piled with three large plates of fried chicken and two boxes of pizza, and two bottles of Coke and three dozen beers were placed on the floor next to it, and five young people sat around the coffee table to enjoy their dinner, which was also the first official celebration dinner since the move, and also shouldered the responsibility of congratulating Hugo on his second role since 1992.

"Don't you have a roommate upstairs? Why don't you shout down and ...... together" Hugo looked at the lively scene in the house, and then he remembered that the fourth floor was also a three-bedroom and two-living room structure, and before Joseph and Carl moved in, there were already people occupying a room.

Carl shook his head, "He's not here, he's only met once in the two days since he moved here, and he's not at home most of the time." He seems to be a music student, but he doesn't know that it's the Los Angeles Conservatory of Music (Musis. Institute) and the University of California, Los Angeles (UY. of。 california。 los。 angeles). When I first came into contact, I thought that Carl was a little rigid, otherwise he would not have been abandoned by the previous two actors and became a bare-bones commander, but later I learned that Carl is actually very sociable, and his personality is more lively than Joseph, but he takes his work more seriously and is easy to be stubborn. After getting along in the past two days, Carl talked a lot, but became familiar with Hugo.

"Studying music?" Hugo raised an eyebrow and looked at Alex, "You probably also studied music, right?" As he spoke, his eyes turned to the old piano.

Alex immediately understood Hugo's teasing, and waved his hand with the chicken leg, "It was left by the previous roommate, and he said that a few keys were broken, and he couldn't play anyway, so there was no need to take them away." I kept it there and I didn't lose it. After Alex finished speaking, he looked at Hugo and suddenly remembered the creation of the previous night, "It's that you're more like playing music, if you want to use it, you're always welcome." ”

As soon as Alex said this, both Carl and Charlize were immediately interested. In fact, there has always been no shortage of versatile people in the entertainment industry, but there are not many who are really talented in every skill, Hugo has good potential in acting, which has violated the "law of handsome guys", does he still have musical talent?

It was Hugo's turn to wave his hand, "No, I don't know how to play the piano." However, he forgot that he was holding a pizza in his hand, and accidentally swayed the filling on the pizza, fell onto his jeans, and even spilled it out, causing Joseph and Alex on both sides to jump up at once.

Hugo hurriedly tried to pick up the filling, but Charlize immediately stopped it loudly, "Hugo, your hands are so greasy, don't wipe them all over again, use facial tissues!" This stern voice startled the four big men, and Charlize also realized that she seemed to be a little allergic, so she hurriedly saluted, "Sorry, I have obsessive-compulsive disorder." ”

Seeing Charlize's stern nervous appearance, Hugo immediately chuckled shyly, took the paper handed by Charlize, picked up all the fillings that had been spilled around, and threw them into the trash, and then said casually, "Are you sure it's not cleanliness?" ”

"Oh, no, no, it's not that exaggerated." After Charlize saw that everything was neat, he returned to his previous state, and found that the four boys were all projecting their attention on him, Charlize quickly changed the topic, "Hugo, you said you can't play the piano?" Really? ”

Hugo saw the deliberate urgency in Charlize's eyes, as if he was very interested in this topic, Hugo knew that Charlize wanted to change the topic, he chuckled, but did not pierce Charlize, and said, "I can play, but I play badly, so I would rather say that I can't play, so as not to be ugly." ”

"Even if it's ugly, a handsome guy plays the piano, this is a picture that countless people dream of." Charlize breathed a sigh of relief and continued with a smile.

Hugo showed a surprised expression, "You can't still sit in some fairy tale dream of a princess and prince, right?" It's vulgar. ”

"So what, I'm a woman, you're a man, don't you know that men and women have different brain structures?" Charlize didn't refute but didn't admit it, just crumpled the tissue in his hand into a ball and threw it directly at Hugo, but unfortunately the paper ball was too light, and it crashed directly halfway through.

Carl, who was sitting next to him, saw that Hugo and Charlize seemed to have a real quarrel, and quickly changed the topic, "Joseph, when will Hugo's new movie start filming this time?" "That's one of the big reasons for tonight's dinner: Hugo is the one who pays the bill.

"Filming started in Burbank, and today I got the news that it was next week. However, Hugo still has to go to the trial, and it may be postponed for a day or two. Joseph has been thinking about this in his head, so he didn't get stunned, and said directly, "By the way, I'm going to sign a contract tomorrow, and I'll meet Rob, Jack, and Demi when I'm done, and I guess I'm going to practice the script." ”

"So fast?" It was Alex who spoke.

"It's not too fast, the actor is only now confirmed, and the progress has been delayed," Joseph has a lot of work in the company today, "Jack also has a work contract on hand, and it is a film called Hoffa directed by Danny DeVito (Dano), so it is estimated that the filming schedule will be relatively rushed." ”

"That Danny DeVito from 'One Flew Over the Asylum' and 'Mother-Daughter Love'?" Carl was a little surprised, and Joseph nodded, "When did he start working as a director?" "Danny DeVito is a famous actor who can be seen in many classic works, but I didn't expect to start working as a director.

Joseph shrugged, "'Wrong right to wrong. of。 the。 Roses)' is the work he directed. ”

Now it was Carl's turn to be surprised, "Wrong Right" was shortlisted for the 47th Golden Globe Award for Best Musical Comedy Film, starring Michael Douglas, and was also widely acclaimed at the Berlin Film Festival that year, "I review. Carl immediately said obediently that as an agent, he really shouldn't have missed such important information.

"Look, I said Hugo would get the job, yes, yes!" Alex said excitedly, amused Carl's frustrated expression again, "By the way, Hugo, how much do you get paid for this work?" ”

"How much does 'Vanity Fair' pay for this information? Don't sell it if you don't have five thousand dollars. Hugo joked to Alex with a smile, it is estimated that tomorrow Hugo defeated Tom to become the leading actor of "Yihai Xiongfeng" The news will land on the front pages of major newspapers, and Hugo's salary will definitely become the focus of attention, after all, this time it is not a supporting role of "smelling a woman", and the protagonist's salary is naturally not trivial.

It's a pity that Hugo doesn't know how much the salary is, because he knows that he is not qualified to be picky now, so he leaves it to Joseph to deal with it all. So Hugo also looked at Joseph, only to see Joseph raise his thumb, index and middle fingers, and then said with a little regret, "But they are still unwilling to give in and give you dividends." ”

This means that Hugo will earn a salary of three million dollars for starring in "The Heroes of the Righteous Sea", which is back to the level of the "Hudson's Eagle" period, mainly because Hugo is much cheaper than Tom, so Columbia Pictures is not too harsh. It's just that in terms of box office dividends, Hugo now does not have any box office appeal, and Columbia Pictures is naturally unwilling to let Hugo bear the box office risk through dividends, and is even more unwilling to share the profits to Hugo.

"Wow." Alex's exclamation basically represents the inner feelings of Carl and Charlize at this moment, in fact, Hugo himself is also amazed in his heart, not long ago when he "smelled the fragrance and knew the woman", he was surprised because he got a salary of 500,000 US dollars, and now he has an income of 3 million US dollars immediately when he walks into the position of the protagonist, which is indeed amazing.

"Don't overthink it, the pace of progress is always one step at a time." Hugo patted Joseph on the shoulder contentedly, signaling him not to care too much about the pay. "You know, I'm still the worst actor in the Golden Raspberry Award, and I actually got a job offer again, which is the most important thing. As I can imagine, Tom and Brad's faces are anything but good at the moment. ”

Joseph soon realized that he was too greedy. So he smiled as well, "How does it feel to beat your opponent head-on and get the role?" ”

Hugo shoved the pizza in his mouth in one gulp, chewed it vigorously, and then raised his hands like a bodybuilder to show his biceps, "Please call me popeye." the。 sailor）！ After saying that, Hugo jumped up in cooperation and took a step like a Popeye.

This funny action suddenly made everyone roll back and forth with laughter, and the atmosphere was not harmonious.

After dinner was finished and all the drinks and beers were drunk, it was already eleven o'clock, Joseph and Carl went upstairs, and Alex went to the shower first, leaving Hugo and Charlize in the hall to clean up the mess.

Hugo packed up the pizza boxes one by one, but noticed that the box in front of Charlize slowed down the mushrooms, it is estimated that Charlize does not eat mushrooms, but unexpectedly, the pizza side is all eaten, which is different from most girls, which makes Hugo laugh.

"Laughing at what?" Charlize noticed Hugo's expression and asked.

Hugo shook his head, "No." With a smile still on his face, "Is it really okay if you live here?" Hugo hesitated for a moment, but finally asked the hesitation in his heart.

"Hehe, you're not a virus, what's the matter?" Charlize stopped what he was doing, glanced at Hugo, the eyes of the two people touched in the air, this time no one dodged, there was no embarrassment, just looked at each other quietly, Charlize continued, "If you are worried about that night, don't worry, it's all over." I guess we'd better be friends. You see, we don't get along very well, don't we? Others say that there is no pure friendship between a man and a woman, what do you think? ”

Hearing Charlize's words, Hugo felt a little lost in his heart, but he quickly recovered, smiled and said, "I don't think so, at least that night was not pure friendship." ”

Charlize smiled generously and nodded in agreement, "But maybe it was that night that proved that it was most appropriate for us to be friends." So, with such an episode, maybe we can have pure friendship between us? ”

Hugo tilted his head in thought, then hooked the corners of his mouth, gave Charlize a light punch in the shoulder, and said in the tone of a black man on the street, "Yo, man." After speaking, he also tugged at his pants, wanting to show a casual appearance, but it didn't look like it at all, so he directly made Charlize roll forward and backwards, and the pizza box in his hand was almost overturned.